Gothic Lolita: 2003 Archives

I think Fifi is either gonna love this outfit, or she's gonna kill me for dressin' her like bo-peep on crack.

I don't see many people dressin' their SD13's quite so frilly. I wish there was something I could do to make it just a little bit evil. Please comment if you have any hot tips!

In any case, this is the Dolly Dolly Alice dress pattern, altered a bit. Thank you to Helene for traveling this road before us!

I empire'd the waist by shortening it 1/2" and scooped the neck out a bit, I thought that might give it *just* the decollete the outfit needed to age it a little (snicker). It is fully lined, and I hid most of my grevious mistakes pretty well. The one thing is the fabric is way too heavy. But who could resist this Baskin Robbins pattern!?!?! But it made the sleeves hard to gather, so they might not be tight enough.

The bonnet I got from an old victorian dolly pattern and enlarged it.

Two things.

1) Drove by a pet store and noticed hot pink velvet & zebra striped chez lounges for dogs in the window. Went back the next day to check the price as the ones online we'd been looking at were in the $300-$400 range. The lounges were only (!) $99, but they did have this darling purple sofa for considerably less. I died. Died so much I went back the *next* day and bought it. I have another leopard print chair on the way too. Sigh.

2) Spent the weekend sewing. Came up with a nice mix-and-match set (there will be more) of two bloomers and a bonnet in Super Dollfie size. The bloomer pattern I drafted myself, the bonnet pattern I adapted from reprinted antique doll patterns. Very tricky! I used Pullip as a model, her head should be a similar size. It is much more pink than in these pictures. The ruffley pantaloons are magenta, and the Baskin Robbins ones are magenta and pink. I love this combo! I think I'll call it the "Circus Circus Lolita" set. For obvious reasons.

Weee! What better excuse than Halloween than to get aaaaall my dolls dressed up in Lolita outfits.

I ran out of dolls though, I actually have more Gothic Lolita outfits than I do dolls, or space to display and photograph them.

I'm a bit ambivilent about the photo set-up. The lighting we used worked awesomely for Mieux below, she looked luminous. But when pulling back on the group the effect was more washed out and less glowy than I wanted. Also the detail is fuzzy.

Bah. The close-ups are better. Go there.

We drove all over California Saturday trying to track down the few remaining tiny light-up pumpkins. It was a quest... I ended up with way more groovy Halloween crap than I needed, oh well!

Is here! And the new Takara Lolita outfit came the day before from Rudi. I guess she has the Jenny 18 body? She's about 1/2 inch taller than my Aya.

I don't have a SAJ body, so this is the nicest quality Jenny body I've seen, though I haven't undressed my special Jenny Shop 18. I was going give her a busty obitsu body, as I think it would make her look sassy, but I might leave it now. Oh, and when I tried pulling the other head off my obitsu the neck nob snapped off into the head. Sigh.